[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-03 Thread Duveyoung
Vaj, I don't know how you got to thinking I'm okay with Afrocentrism being taught. It's a bunch of shit, but I just know that most dogmas are filled with errors, and that it is a merely matter of degree when comparing Afrocentrism with the dogma of Modern Science. Science is replete with beliefs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word is used? Are you offended because it stems from a French word for 'black' that your forefathers used. Your forefathers, who chose to fight, at all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Vaj
On May 2, 2008, at 7:59 AM, off_world_beings wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote: Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word is  used? Are you offended because it stems from a French word for 'black' that  your forefathers

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Angela Mailander
I am not a student of Afrocentrism, nor am I expert in the mainstream history of the slave trade on this planet. That said, however, there are several red flags that go up for me in reading the piece Moral Stains: Slavery and Reality. 1. The two paragraphs preceding the last one blatantly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not a student of Afrocentrism, nor am I expert in the mainstream history of the slave trade on this planet. That said, however, there are several red flags that go up for me in reading the piece Moral

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Richard J. Williams
Angela Mailander wrote: There are more issues one could raise... Not to mention that most anthropologists have abandoned the claim that there are any biologically distinct races with distinct linguistic, cultural and social groupings.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 2, 2008, at 9:52 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: He realized sometime yesterday that he was well over the posting limit (about 25 over, by my guess) and that as a result he won't be around for a few weeks (hopefully more than two weeks this time after his...what is it... fourth time going

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Vaj
On May 2, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: I am not a student of Afrocentrism, nor am I expert in the mainstream history of the slave trade on this planet. That said, however, there are several red flags that go up for me in reading the piece Moral Stains: Slavery and Reality.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Angela Mailander
True, he is addressing a point that should be made, namely that Afrocentrism is often guilty of shoddy scholarship, but if you're guilty of the same thing in making your point, you're obviously doing yourself a disservice. --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 2, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Angela

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Duveyoung
Afrocentrism is no more or less ignorant than any of the beliefs of every religion on Earthincluding the secular religions of democracy, I'm a good guy, and What me worry. Talk about the blind leading the blind is, well, spurious, when in fact every group of humans will use delusions for the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Vaj
On May 2, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Afrocentrism is no more or less ignorant than any of the beliefs of every religion on Earthincluding the secular religions of democracy, I'm a good guy, and What me worry. Well, it's not a religion, but it does sometimes impact it. For

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 2, 2008, at 7:59 AM, off_world_beings wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word is used? Are you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-02 Thread Vaj
On May 2, 2008, at 6:42 PM, off_world_beings wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 2, 2008, at 7:59 AM, off_world_beings wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Am I the only one on this forum that is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little advice, Angela: Stop with the some of my best friends are... babble and just stick to not using offensive words, okay? I'm offended and that should be enough to get you to shut the fuck up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-01 Thread Angela Mailander
It's pretty weird that he takes offense where none is given and then blames everybody but himself. --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little advice, Angela: Stop with the some of my best friends

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-05-01 Thread shempmcgurk
Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word is used? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's pretty weird that he takes offense where none is given and then blames everybody but himself. --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?

2008-04-30 Thread shempmcgurk
Here's a little advice, Angela: Stop with the some of my best friends are... babble and just stick to not using offensive words, okay? I'm offended and that should be enough to get you to shut the fuck up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: